I've Got Two Tickets to Paradise...But It's Cold and Cloudy There
Our last overnight stop of our 3 month long journey was in Virginia Beach, VA, at a nice Bed & Breakfast called Barclay Cottage. We were greeted by the smell of the salty Atlantic and a tour of the inn from our gracious innkeepers. We stayed in the Lighthouse Room…a room that was filled with even more lighthouse paraphernalia than my mom has. Pretty amazing.
After we settled in, we headed out to seafood restaurant, Taotog’s, for some dinner. We had a mediocre crabcake and tuna melt and some pretty good wine. Then, we walked it off on our way back to the inn (stopping only for trashy gossip magazines to get us back “in the loop”). Then, it was off to bed.
The next morning, we were drawn out of the bedroom by the wonderful aroma of breakfast cooking. We sat down to coffee, sugared apples, muffins, eggs, veggie sausage and potatoes. Way more than I could eat that early, but still very delicious. We also met a nice older couple who eloped in Jamaica and urged us to do the same.
After our gluttonous meal, we drove north over the amazing Chesapeake Bay Bridge and then into Delaware for a delicious veggie turkey sub at Capriotti’s. Next on our agenda was a stop at Dogfish Head Brewery. We arrived about a half hour before the tour and walked into a huge warehouse with no signs of life…until a guy walked in and we asked if they were doing a tour. “Yeah,” was the reply and that was it.
We waited around and finally, the tour started. The tour itself was probably 8 minutes long with some beer samples at the end. The samples were, of course, the best part. Though buying the beer at the brewery was way more expensive than buying it at a beer store…weird. I was the designated driver so I only tried a couple of the tame beers while Nick got loaded. Haha.
Mostly, we spent this last day thinking about the fact that our trip was basically over. We seriously could not believe it. Before we left, three months seemed like it was going to be a really long time. But we were realizing that, although it was an amazing trip, three months is really not a long time to see an entire country. And with a strange mixture of homesickness and the sadness that snapping back into reality creates, we headed into New Jersey.
